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The Théâtre du Rond-Point offers several shows that don't require understanding the French language. From dance to performance, including magic and acrobatics, we offer a wide range of shows. Here's a short presentation for each of them. Unfortunately our online booking software doesn't have an English version but is quite easy to understand. If necessary, don't hesitate to call us for assistance +33 1 44 95 98 21 from tuesday to saturday, from 11 a.m to 6 p.m

Dance

In music, a remix is a new version of an existing piece. But what if the same principle were applied to choreography? Badke(remix) reinvents an iconic performance through the vision of Palestinian artists, revisiting it in light of today’s political context. Amir Sabra and Ata Khatab orchestrate this renewed interpretation, where the urge to live and the power of dance merge into a trance of resistance.

From Dabkeh, the traditional Palestinian folk dance, to contemporary dance, this vibrant production draws on hip-hop, capoeira, circus arts and kickboxing with infectious energy. Set to a richly hybrid soundtrack blending traditional instruments with electronic music, the performers set the stage ablaze.

Dance

Behind La Chachi, the flamboyant artist who has made flamenco her field of gestural experimentation, stands María del Mar Suárez, an explosive and versatile performer. Actress, choreographer, and dancer, the Andalusian draws on Spanish folklore only to hybridize it with other sources of inspiration. For this performance, whose transformative power lies in the very act of journeying, the daring artist is joined by a singer, a choir, and musicians to explore, through dance, a discipline that is as physical as it is ascetic: rock climbing. Somewhere between an intimate pilgrimage and a challenge set for oneself, what unfolds is a quest for self-transcendence and spiritual elevation. Volcanic in her intensity, La Chachi ignites to the rhythm of the music, fusing styles with remarkable flair.

Performance in English, surtitled in French

Ido and Hannan are two Israeli stage directors. One lives in Tel Aviv, the other in Paris. In 2022, a European festival commissions them to create a piece around a perfectly reasonable question: what does it mean to be Israeli today?

Then comes the October 7 attack and the extreme violence unleashed in their name. A major existential artistic question arises: what do we do now? They choose the worst possible option: not to know. They play themselves, contradicting each other live on stage. Genocide, terror, Shoah, the words burn as they sink deeper into their paradoxes.

Darkly funny, biting, and at times absurd. A performance that seeks neither to reconcile nor to reassure, but to stare chaos straight in the eye.

Dance

A traditional dance practiced by the Berber communities of Morocco’s Middle and High Atlas Mountains, Ahidus is performed shoulder to shoulder in festive circles, accompanied by music and song. Trained from an early age in the dances of the Maghreb and in Arab-Andalusian music, Filipe Lourenço reactivates this heritage, bringing it into dialogue with his accomplished practice of contemporary dance. He extends a choreographic language that places musicality and the collective at the heart of its concerns. On stage, twelve closely bonded dancers honour this ancestral ritual form even as they reinvent it, transforming bodies into vessels of poetry and shared humanity. Driven by the irresistible rhythms of live percussionist Amine Nouri, their repetitive movements gradually synchronize with the compelling pulse of the drums, building towards a state of trance.

Dance

Choreographer Christos Papadopoulos returns to the impulses of his youth, to the teenage dreams born from the conviction that anything is possible. In a damaged world that increasingly resembles a frightening dystopia, he rekindles that flame through a magnetic and mesmerizing group choreography. Bodies ripple in unison—organic, fluid, and weightless—punctuated by invigorating syncopations. This latest creation, which sets the collective ablaze, explores the synergy between sonic vibrations and physical musicality. Performed to an original score by contemporary Greek composer Kornilios Selamsis, both repetitive and hypnotic, the ten dancers gradually build in intensity, rekindling hope for brighter days.

Dance

With this new creation dedicated to her late mother, she orchestrates a ballet for eight dancers, unfolding between undulating curves and convulsive, staccato movements. Alternating solos, duets, trios, and ensemble passages to a hypnotic electronic score, she confronts sorrow head-on, challenging grief through artistic transcendence. Like shifting apparitions, dressed in flesh-toned leotards, poised on demi-pointe, backs arched and faces made up, the dancers’ sculptural bodies carve seismic, cathartic emotional variations through space.

Dance

She was known as the Star of the East. An Egyptian icon, Umm Kulthum captivated audiences, and her voice filled radio airwaves across the Maghreb and the Middle East. As for Omar Khayyam, the 11th-century Persian poet and scholar, he celebrated the intoxication of love and the joy of living in passionate verses that she loved to sing. It was through Umm Kulthum, whose songs were woven into his Moroccan childhood, that Fouad Boussouf first discovered Omar Khayyam’s poetry. With Oüm, the choreographer pays tribute to them both. His hybrid dance language, drawing on urban, traditional, and contemporary influences, unfolds here alongside live music, embodied by six dancers whose movement is at once fluid and seismic, combining grace with sensuality.

Dance

At the helm of Peeping Tom, Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier create works at the crossroads of theatre and contemporary dance. In their emotionally charged productions, the apparent realism of the sets contrasts with the dreamlike strangeness of the situations, and the bodies, that haunt them. With Le Salon Revisité, they return to a work first created in the early 2000s, reimagining it in a new version for five performers. Three dancers, an actor, and a singer portray the members of a family revolving around the figure of the grandfather, an aging aristocratic patriarch in decline. Within the faded grandeur of a decaying drawing room, wounds and desires, the burden of inheritance, and shifting power dynamics unfold through movement that is expansive, expressive, and feverish.

Performance in French, surtitled in English

At the barbershop, people build community as much as they celebrate and put the world to rights. On the day of the Champions League final, television sets blare their excitement in cities across the globe. Barber Shop Chronicles unfolds over a single day in several barbershops, from Brussels to Dakar.

Africans and members of the African diaspora speak loudly and freely, about everyday life, raising children, exile, masculinity, racism, and football, of course. Michael De Cock and Junior Mthombeni orchestrate these vibrant, mixed snapshots with great skill, rich in ideas and brimming with infectious energy.

Performance in Italian and Spanish, surtitled in French

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes. Of the forty-five passengers on board, more than half survived, but they waited a long time for rescue under extreme conditions.

Italian director Fabiana Iacozzilli investigated by speaking with survivors and bereaved families to reconstruct the ordeal they endured. In a set resembling the wreckage of a dilapidated airplane, the actors visibly manipulate life-sized puppets inspired by the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti, ghostly, fragile figures of the survivors, resisting as best they can, facing hunger, cold, isolation, and the death of some among them.

And the tragedy reaches the power of myth.

Concert

This enchanting performance invites music to settle deep within the heart of a forest, bringing together the fantastical visual world of magician Étienne Saglio and the graceful musical universe of the duo Birds on a Wire. Made up of Franco-American singer Rosemary Standley (former lead vocalist of Moriarty) and cellist Dom La Nena, the duo has a remarkable gift for bold reinterpretations, spanning everything from Purcell to Pink Floyd, with Jacques Brel, Bob Dylan, and Tom Waits along the way.

Here, the two musical enchantresses take their place with their instruments beside the flickering light of a campfire, at the foot of a tranquil tree. Their comforting repertoire, at the crossroads of folk, rock, and chanson, warms both heart and soul. An enhanced concert, to be experienced as much with the eyes as with the ears.

Circus

Imagine a giant aquarium, with four acrobats immersed in a weightless choreography. With this original, sensory, and playful performance, Compagnie Out of the Blue continues its physical and poetic exploration of the aquatic world. Balancing a return to childhood wonder, a celebration of lightness, and a call to protect a vital resource, water becomes a powerful catalyst for the imagination, an invitation to dream, a fearless, life-giving current.

Fully clothed and holding their breath, the performers whirl through the water, head over heels, exploring the infinite possibilities of the underwater world. Immersing themselves completely in the source of movement, they create acrobatic figures, floating circles, and dynamic currents within a crystal-clear environment bathed in electronic music.